Thanks for the link - excellent reading! We have found that the abandonment rate goes up exponentially when the user has to wait more than 3 seconds for a video to load. YouTube consistently delivers on this playback experience - partially because of their philosophy on bitrate and partially because of the $$$ they have put into CDN. Blip has gotten a lot better in this area recently too.
Regards, Frank --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Charles HOPE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is very interesting research comparing different ways that various sites > (blip.tv, Veoh, Vimeo, Google Video and YouTube) encode Flash video. > > <http://hastalavistavista.wordpress.com/category/video-datasheets/> >
